One Direction performed Teenage Kicks by the Undertones at the Brit Awards. The boy band won the Brit Global Success Award for International Sales during 2012. Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

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A displaced Syrian boy and his little sister try to cover themselves from the rain in the Azaz refugee camp, north of Aleppo province, Syria. According to Syrian activists the number of people in the Azaz camp has grown by 3,000 in the last few weeks due to heavier shelling by government forces. Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP

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US actor Richard Gere poses for photographers while arriving for the UK premiere of the film Arbitrage in London. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

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The silhouette of a performer is seen on the wall of the church in the Piazzo Duomo during the Opening Ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trento, Italy. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

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Not to be confused with the Prada in Milan: This is the collection from Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada for the Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 collection at the Madrid Fashion Week. Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

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Spectators and players make their way to shelter as snow and rain fall during the Match Play Championship golf tournament in Marana, Arizona. Play was suspended due to the bad weather. Photograph: Ross Franklin/AP

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Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he delivers his first foreign policy speech in Old Cabel Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. If you look carefully you will see someone just out of full camera shot is also gesturing. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

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The parents of late British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, Mitch and Janis Winehouse, pose on the red carpet as they arrive at the BRIT Awards in London. Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images

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Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of Chris Huhne, leaves Southwark Crown Court after the jury were unable to agree on a verdict in her trial. Ms Pryce, 60, faces a re-trial for the accusation of perverting the course of justice. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

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Seargeant Kevin Bowen of the Royal Artillery stands by his 105mm gun during a joint exercise with French forces in Otterburn, Northumberland. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

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Muhey-Deen Kamal, 11, originally from Ghana has a haircut at a barbershop in West Ham. According to the latest census, London's white British population is now statistically a minority, forming just 45% of the capital's residents. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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Visitors walk through a church designed by the Gijs Van Vaerenbergh partnership in Borgloon, Belgium. The church has been chosen by visitors of the website Archdaily as building of the year 2012. It is made from 100 layers of steel, weighing 30 tons. Photograph: Yves Logghe/AP

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Slightly creepy masks are worn by revellers on the last day of the traditional carnival in Basel, Switzerland. Photograph: Walter Bieri/EPA

A man lights a cigarette while watching a film at a cinema in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

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A Jewish girl, dressed up for the festival of Purim, talks on a mobile phone in Bnei Brak, Israel. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

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A member of the Pa Then tribe jumps into a fire during a ritual to mark the end of the harvest season in Vietnam. Photograph: Kham/Reuters

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Flowers from over 300 varieties of snowdrops come into bloom in the grounds of Cambo House in Scotland. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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[insert joke here] A member of the Belarus team and performers in folk costume prepare for the opening ceremony of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

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A Rohingya Muslim from Burma lies on the floor of an immigration detention centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is one of a group of 33 rescued by the Sri Lankan navy during their attempt to reach Malaysia in a wooden boat. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

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More strikes: This time it's employees of the Spanish legal system. Judges, prosecutors, lawyers and court secretaries carry out their second strike in two months over working conditions and new legal taxes. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Files are stacked up against a wall of an empty courtroom in Madrid. Photograph: Susana Vera/ Reuters

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A demonstrator tries to pass through police lines during a march to mark the 24-hour general strike in Athens . Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Shia Muslims carry the bodies of bombing victims covered with sheets, reading 'We are ready Hussain', for burial in Quetta, Pakistan. A massive bomb struck the south-western city last weekend. Photograph: Arshad Butt/AP

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Press photographers take pictures of a Madame Tussauds wax figure of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German second world war anti-Nazi resistance movement, the White Rose. It's displayed near to one of the entrance doors at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Sophie, whose activities resulted in her being executed 70 years ago, was a student at Munich University, where she printed and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets. Photograph: Johannes Simon/Getty Images

A trader reads a newspaper at a sugarcane wholesale market in Kolkata, India. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

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That's hard: a US marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Pelicans on a sand bar in the lake at Tuscawilla Park in Ocala, Florida. Photograph: Ocala Star-Banner/Barcroft Media

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Vasily Balakhonov takes a bath in a barrel in Bryansk, Russia. Just 12, mainly elderly residents, call the small village of Chukhrai their home. They live in wooden huts on a diet of potatoes, vegetable soup and the local staple, borscht, a purple stew made from beetroot. Everything the villagers eat is grown themselves on the land surrounding their houses.

A general view of Chukhrai village in the grip of winter.

Occasionally a grocer with a tractor ventures down the treacherous forest track to the village with bread and flour. Photographs: Igor Shpilenok/Barcroft Media

And in India cars burn in a factory car park during a trade union strike in Nodia on the outskirts of New Delhi. Millions of Indian workers have staged a two-day walkout to protest against government anti-labour policies. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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A man rides a bicycle in front of an immobilised ferry during a 24-hour strike in the port of Piraeus, near Athens. Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday in a nationwide protest against wage cuts and high taxes, keeping ferries docked in ports, shutting state schools and leaving hospitals working with emergency staff. Photograph: REUTERS

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius appears at the magistrate court in Pretoria this morning.
Read about the case on our live blog. Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images

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Only a few days to go, movie fans! Oscar statues are stored in a tent for the upcoming 85th Academy Awards, in Hollywood on Sunday. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

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People attend a lecture by Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, during a debate at the higher education unit of Feira de Santana (UNEF) in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia last night. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

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Henry Poor of the West End rowing club warms up during day two of the New Zealand rowing championships on Lake Ruataniwha. Photograph: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images

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A Borneo orangutan relaxes among the rocks in its enclosure at the Mandai zoological garden in Singapore. Singapore Zoo have bred a total of 37 orangutans to date. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images